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How long until we see favelas in the US? Low income areas completely devoid of economic opportunity, more or less ceded by local municipalities, with lawless in
by fiatpandas 9y ago
How long until we see favelas in the US? Low income areas completely devoid of economic opportunity, more or less ceded by local municipalities, with lawless informal economies and virtually no basic city services? Or do we already have them by another name?
- jlebrech 9y agoGhettos, the projects?
- fiatpandas 9y agoBut they don't really function like favelas.
- realo 9y agoNot quite there yet... but ... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flint,_Michigan https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flint,_Michigan
- maxerickson 9y agoFlint has a bunch of abandoned housing. It's sort of the opposite of a favela, people left housing behind because of the lack of economic opportunity (whereas a favela is people dealing with poor housing in order to seek economic opportunity).
- dpierce9 9y agoVisit West Baltimore. It isn't a favela in the sense of either density or construction but in terms of missing economic opportunity, informal economy, very weak city services.